[Lustre-discuss] rc -43: Identifier removed

[Andreas Dilger]

On Feb 11, 2008  17:04 +0100, Per Lundqvist wrote:
> I got this error today when testing a newly set up 1.6 filesystem:
> 
>    n50 1% cd /mnt/test
>    n50 2% ls
>    ls: reading directory .: Identifier removed
>    
>    n50 3% ls -alrt
>    total 8
>    ?---------  ? ?    ?       ?            ? dir1
>    ?---------  ? ?    ?       ?            ? dir2
>    drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Feb  8 15:46 ../
>    drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Feb 11 15:11 ./
> 
>    n50 4% stat .
>      File: `.'
>      Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
>    Device: b438c888h/-1271347064d  Inode: 27616681    Links: 2
>    Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1120/   faxen)   Gid: (  500/     nsc)
>    Access: 2008-02-11 16:11:48.336621154 +0100
>    Modify: 2008-02-11 15:11:27.000000000 +0100
>    Change: 2008-02-11 15:11:31.352841294 +0100
>    
> this seems to be happen almost all the time when I am running as a 
> specific user on this system. Note that the stat call always works... I 
> haven't yet been able to reproduce this problem when running as my own 
> user.

EIDRM (Identifier removed) means that your MDS has a user database
(/etc/passwd and /etc/group) that is missing the particular user ID.


Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.